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Trying a Rocky Patel World Championship cigar. Hopefully it is more full bodied than most of their mid offerings.

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DVH putting Tony V is in his place ...

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College baseball used to be dominated by the West Coast, so good East Coast programs who could host would always draw early hosting timeslots, to spread the coverage of baseball throughout the day as much as possible,

Where is everyone?

Texas? Vandy? Surely you guys are moving on by now....hell, Georgia? LSU?

43-5 against everybody...except

Arkansas, UTSA, and Florida. 1-8.

How did it taste to be 0-1 against our state's B squad?

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When does Russia retaliate and on what scale?

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I bet they launch a massive 3+ year long invasion and kill thousands of innocent people, abduct tens of thousands of Ukranian children...

Oh wait.

Commenting on the food rather than the discussion of the way people are treated, which varies extremely widely.

Italian food as you imagine it, does not exist. Italian cuisine as the Italians have eaten it for centuries, does; it varies significantly, and has diverged more broadly from its American Italian cousins, for a variety of reasons-- from the availability and pricing of ingredients, to the Americanization of taste buds from second, third, etc generations who have never had the baseline experience of growing up with Italian food.

You can go and order a hundred different pasta options, but they're never going to be anything like a souped up version of your American oriented tastes. The food won't be as sweet or as cheesy, or as sharply saucy.

There will be a surplus of seafood, of oils and the use of fresh vegetables. Condiments beyond olive oil and some dry seasoning are relatively uncommon. Garlic isn't a staple, but an accessory used to enhance *some* foods.

Some people like traditional Italian food better. I generally do, but American Italian has a special place in my heart for its sharper, more warming fare.

When it comes to Pizza, the Italian version is not that good. I enjoy a pizza magherita or pizza marinara as much as anyone can, but it is simple and painfully plain. It isn't what I expect or want out of a quality pizza, but is a slice of the history of the food that is pleasant enough. Just frame your expectations accordingly and reasonably. You aren't getting 8 toppings or three cheeses.

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We can put a man on the moon (allegedly)?? in the 60’s, but we are still completely mystified by cancer. No way.

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We're not completely mystified by cancer in any way; it is not a singular disease, with a singular cause, singular risk factors, or singular ways of behaving in human systems. It is a complex umbrella of diseases that have similarities in terms of the spawning of inappropriate cell growth, but beyond that one form often holds very little in common with any other form under the same umbrella of conditions.

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. Advances in various cancer treatments have been incredible.

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People say nonsense like 'we are completely mystified' when they refuse to acknowledge that something with a 75% 2 year mortality rate 40 years ago, now has a 20% 5 year mortality rate.

Hell, we even have vaccines that essentially shut a number of forms of cancer completely off, but 'Mah HPV shot is of the debil' crowd doesn't want to acknowledge that either.

Cock free, tattoo free, body-positive nonsense free, finger bangable, bush growing American goodness.